Editors' Review

There are plenty of tools that let users convert a variety of different document types into PDF files, but we're not sure we've ever seen one as comprehensive as PDFill PDF and Image Writer Free. This useful tool not only converts documents to PDFs, but also supports a number of different image formats and lets you adjust a wide variety of settings. If you need a way to take advantage of the characteristics of PDF files without investing in expensive software, give PDFill PDF and Image Writer Free a try.

The program can be accessed from virtually anywhere in Windows; once it's installed, it will appear with your other printer options in the print dialog of any program. A configuration menu lets you set your PDF preferences, including output options, optimization, description, security, view preferences, and presentation. There's a whole slew of PDF tools, too; you can merge multiple PDFs, add headers and footers, apply watermarks, rotate and crop pages, and more. PDFs aren't all the program does, either; documents can also be saved in the PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIF, and GIF formats. PDFill PDF and Image Writer Free is easy enough for anyone to use, but its powerful features will please more advanced users, too. A built-in Help file provides a thorough overview of the program's features and includes plenty of screenshots. Overall, we think that PDFill PDF and Image Writer Free is a great thing to have around; it's easy to access when you need it, stays out of your way when you don't, and it packs a lot of useful features that anyone who works with PDFs will appreciate.

PDFill PDF and Image Writer installs a desktop icon without asking and leaves a folder behind upon removal.

Publisher's Description

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From PlotSoft:
Create free PDF or free Image using PDFill: a free PDF creator or PDF printer for high-quality conversion to PDF or Image, comprising a user-friendly interface that enables printing to PDF or Image from virtually any windows application. Create PDF with options: (1) Optimize PDF output for screen, print, e-book and prepress; (2) Add PDF information such as title, author, subject, keywords; (3) Secure PDF with password in 40/128 bit and permissions; (4) Add view preferences to open page layout, display mode, hide Toolbar, hide MenuBar, hide WindowsUI, fit or center window; (5) Set page display duration, type and duration of the transition effect when you present a PDF document; (6) Rotate PDF page by 90/180/270 degree or crop page with margins; (7) After the PDF creation, you can open, E-mail PDF; You can merge or combine multiple PDF files into one PDF file; Split, extract, reorder or delete PDF pages from a PDF file into a new file; Reformat multiple pages into one page for handout; Add headers and footers to present information, such as date, time, page numbers, or the title of the document; Add Stamp using stylized text and image.

Create Image with options: PNG/JPG/BMP/GIF/TIF, color/gray/mono format, resolution, quality, page number format, antialiasing alpha bits for text or graphics, rotate by 90/180/270, flip horizontally or vertically. Output options: Use default folder and default file name; Use the print job name; Hide the save-as dialog; Replace, append or prepend the existing PDF file; Append time stamp onto file name. An add-in PDF button inside Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel is added to save PDF or Image with one click. You can set all the options in the registry keys programmatically.

Used to be my favorite program for creating and editing PDF's for years

Cons

Gives a lot of mistakes reading PDF's on the net.
Doesn't print pdf's it opened from the net well to the printer
Can't install without Yahoo or Bing. Hate them both.
It's my computer to decide what I use.
Can't remove Yahoo without removing PDFill.

Unless its changed recently, when you try to arrange documents to merge, you can only see five or so file names at a time. If you click on one lower in the list, it still has you view the top five; which is not where you are working. If you are moving one down, you can't see where to. Maybe they've fixed this by now.

Pros? well... I suppose that the fact that it might print to PDF could be considered a pro.
the fact that it was top-rated by cnet should be one, but...

Cons

after installing, I tried to print this webpage to pdf, as a simple test.
most of the large font and headlines characters on this page came out as gibberish!

Summary

I don't know if you have to have special languages or fonts installed in order for this to work... I have English, French and German languages configured.
I have NO ms-office apps or any paid apps - just portable apps and other free software is all I use - so I am not sure if the problems are due to some ms-office dependencies as for another pdf program on here. but I do know that it doesn't work with a simple web page for my setup. so I dare not imagine how it might work when you throw it a curve-ball, asking it to print something more complex.

Reliable, user-friendly, functional. It does everything we have ever wanted to do with PDFs including merging, splitting documents, rotating, cropping, adding watermarks, converting into images, the list goes on...

Superb support - Prompt in responding and problem solved quickly

Cons

None that I can think of.

Summary

I have been using PDFill PDF & Image Writer now for several years and can attest to the program's user-friendliness and functionality. It works for all types of documents including generating PDF drawings from CAD programs. This software has received accolades from many people and others have reviewed it in far greater detail than I ever can.

I will say this - PDFill PDF & Image Writer is one of the first software that I always install on any new computer! A thumbs-up!!

It works just as I expected - as a print driver that I can select from any application. I didn't, however, expect the free tools under the File Menu. Already I've used them to convert and merge jpg image files to a single pdf document, as well as merging several scans I had saved as pdf documents into a single document.

Cons

If anything, it's lack of customization during the install process, but big deal; I just deleted the desktop icon and all the other settings were fine.

Summary

If you're looking for a free, easy-to-use,feature-packed application to create and merge pdf documents as well as convert other formats into pdf, then this is the application for you. For a free program, it packs a punch!

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